That animation took me way too long to make, although to be fair I had something else I needed to do before but stiLL 👽

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Theme is: Jeremy Swayman still wants that smoke (but Pasta doesn’t)

Are we gonna ignore the fact that sway has big ass arms

Endeavour Morse and the case of the disappearing Dean Martin song

Sway has always had one of my favourite openings of any Endeavour episode, mostly for the use of Sway by Dean Martin while the opening titles run. something about this romantic pop song being overlaid on top of the unfolding darkness and drama - and repeated multiple times throughout the episode to punctuate further tragedy - is so striking and really, really does it for me. by the time Huggins puts on that record for his final dance with Gloria, and Sway (the song) starts up, the opening chords are less of a fun bolero flourish and more a banshee shriek of horror to come.

so I was amazed to learn recently that the version of Sway (the episode) I've loved for ten years now... basically doesn't exist outside of the UK and Ireland? the Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour blog theorises that due to copyright restrictions, all overseas releases of the episode - including DVDs and the PBS Masterpiece version, which was later released on Amazon - replace Sway (the song) with a jazz instrumental piece composed by Barrington Pheloung. nothing but respect for Mr Pheloung's decades of work in defining Morse's sound as we know it today, but this replacement doesn't hold a candle to the original episode's vision.

(also, Sway (the song) is kind of hilariously load-bearing in that the episode title doesn't make a lot of sense without the song's appearance at key thematic moments, imo.)

anyway - after I made my initial post about this last week, a couple of people expressed interest in hearing the original episode's music, and after some digging I was able to find a copy ripped directly from ITV! enjoy the opening 3 minutes of Sway (the episode) as Russell Lewis intended:

Penthouse Comics #1 by Jean-David Morvan, Guillem March and many more. Covers by (1) BRÄO, (2) Matteo Scalera and Elia Bonetti, (3) Jeff Dekal, (4) Joshua 'Sway' Swaby, (5) Perditah Byrnison, (6) Marc Aspinall and (7) Robert Sammelin. Out in February 2024.

"Releasing 30 years after the original line debuted, Penthouse is proud to present the ongoing return of Penthouse Comics! Featuring a wealth of talent from all across the industry telling stories in the action, thriller, and horror genres, issue #1 debuts four new ongoing tales. Gun Crazy debuts the wild ride of Dolly Sanchez and Lanoya O'Brien, two girls fighting for survival in this violent story in the crossroads of Tarantino, VHS stuff, and the 80's. Guillem March draws Jean Dufaux's The Dream, a tale about Megan, a Hollywood casting director who attempts to bring out the potential actor hidden deep inside a stripper in the San Francisco suburbs. I Spit On Your Grave is an adaptation of Vernon Sullivan's famous novel about Lee Anderson, whose only goal is to avenge the death of his brother. Along the way he'll fall into a life of debauchery and sex. Miss October follows a young and high-flying female who desperately must find the killer whose murdering women, one-by-one and dubbing them by each month of the year, before she's next! As always, Penthouse Comics features a bonus photoshoot and editorial!"

“Have you swayed today?”

the sound of 36 pines... swaying at night

The sound of 36 pines side by side surrounding the yard and swaying all night like individual hymns is the sound of water, which is the oldest sound, the first sound we forgot.

— Li-Young Lee, from “Water,” in Rose (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1986) (via The Vale of Soul-Making)

Joshua Swaby, Selina Kyle

Joshua Swaby - Dejah Thoris 

“In early drafts of SWAY, I think right up until the readthrough draft – ENDEAVOUR kept the contents of Luisa’s letter from THURSDAY. Shielded him from the pain it contained. As with Lewis and the cassette tape. But Shaun wasn’t comfortable with that. He didn’t feel he had the right to keep something like that from Thursday. And so the final few scenes were rejigged to the version we went with.” -- Russ Lewis, Barcroft interview

I really love how much Shaun Evans cared about details like this.

This is Joshua “Sway” Swaby‘s variant cover for Catwoman #57 (DC, September 2023), part of the Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War event.

From Dead X-Men #003, "An Echo, a Stain”

Art by Lynne Yoshii, Bernard Chang, Javier Pina, David Baldeón and Frank Martin

Written by Steve Foxe

Wonder Woman #8 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere. Variant covers by (1) Joshua ‘Sway’ Swaby and (2) Pablo Villalobos. Out in April.

"Wonder Woman vs. The Sovereign! After being captured by a team of villains, Diana finds herself at the mercy of the scariest of them all. Unbeknownst to our hero, the Sovereign has been pulling her strings since the very beginning of our tale, and now it’s time for her to see the world his way as she falls under the influence of the Lasso of Lies! Plus, Trinity visits the past and unexpectedly changes the future!"

Sway for your day🖤✨